Truth is... I'm a Stark

Hey Junior

When Pepper first broke the news about her pregnancy to she wasn't expecting the most positive reaction, but the only she got was surprising to say the least.

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"Mr Stark, I need to tell you something-"
"If you're trying to get me to go to another meeting, just tell them I'm dead."
"No. It's about when we.."
"When we...?" Tony mimicked, feigning confusion, even though he knew what she was referencing. "Pepper, if you want to tell me something just get straight to it, no hopping around the subject, I'm a very busy ma-"
"I'm pregnant," she blurted out, "and the child is yours." Now Pepper wasn't expecting Tony to be all sunshine and rainbows about it: she expected him to deny it, accuse her of sleeping with other men, to be angry, to be just as scared as she was. She didn't however, expect him to stare at her blankly, face emotionless, and just get up and leave his lab. Pepper would be lying if she said she hadn't cried; no support, whether that be paying child support or emotional support, no hinting to how he felt about this, if he wanted to even be a part of their child's life, her child would have no father. But when Tony came in with a crib 2 hours later those feelings of sadness were replaced with confusion.
"So I bought this one online, of course I'm going to renovate it and stuff. Add a baby monitor, some toys, obviously some tech to, you know, add some flare. We can paint it pink if it's a girl, that's if the baby girl likes pink, I mean, not all girls like pink, that's a sexist assumption and I'm not about that. So we can paint it whatever colour they want. Wait, that's if you like this crib, I can buy a new one, or I could make one from scratch. Yeah, I'll make one from scratch, I can use some -"
"Mr Stark, what are you doing?" Pepper asked, cutting off his ramblings.
"I'm being a father, doing dad stuff. This is what dads do right, I mean, I wouldn't know," he said as if it was obvious, muttering the last part to himself. Pepper just gave him a watery smile in response.

Time skip brought to you by, um... Jeff

9 months later and Pepper had since gone into labour and was in the middle of breaking Tony's hand as he held it, trying to comfort her. That was until the doctor came in telling Tony there had been some complications and emergency surgery need to be performed. Tony had to reluctantly leave {read: be forced out by Rhodey} and wait outside.

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36 hours of labour later and Tony was pacing the floor outside the hospital room. "You should sit dow-" Rhodey started before a glare from Tony silenced him; if looks could kill..
"Mr Stark, we're ready to see you now," Dr Cho greeted with a soft smile.

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Pepper gave a weary smile down at the baby she held in her arms rocking him slightly. Now, Pepper and Tony weren't dating {AN: yet😏} but she'd be damned if she let her son grow up without a father. Besides Tony wasn't so bad, she had started to see a softer side to him lately; fatherhood looked good on him. So if her child shared a fraction of his smile or a fragment of his mind, that would be enough.

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When Tony practically ran into the hospital room he stopped and gazed in at Pepper and the baby she held in her arms. 40 hours of labour and she still looked beautiful ... but he totally wasn't in love with her {read: he totally was}. Then he looked at his child, wow that felt weird to say, his child. He had the generic blue eyes all newborns had but with doe eyes and the face shape of his mother yet he was still the spitting image of his father. Dark chestnut hair like father with the beginnings of soft curls he must have inherited from his mother.

"Would you like to hold him?" Pepper asked softly, Tony just nodded dumbly. The baby gurgled as he was passed,
"welcome to the world ... uh.."
"Peter Parker Antonio Potts-Stark"
'Well wow' Tony thought, Peter was the name they decided if their child was a boy, Morgan if they were a girl. Tony put in the name Parker but Antonio was a complete wild card. Seeing Tony's visible confusion, she giggled and elaborated, "because he's just like his daddy." Tony was aware Pepper has considered giving the child an Italian name to honour his heritage, so Antonio was probably an appropriation of his name, Anthony. His mother told him that she planned to name him Antonio, but Howard wanted a good "American" name. Tony wasn't sure how he felt about the name; he was glad he didn't have his father's name as his middle name, not only did it cut all ties, but ensured he didn't have to carry the weight of the name.
That's when he made his decision, he'd be damned if he let his kid grow up under constant scrutiny from the media like he did. But what he planned to do was a lot of legal work and a lot more long, boring meetings away, and of course he would have to ask Pepper, it was her child after all. For now though, he was content in carrying his beautiful baby boy.
"Hey Junior," he greeted, voice just above a whisper.

{AN: so how was this chapter? Don't forget to vote and comment. I'm not gonna do too much baby Peter because I wanna get onto the main plot, though I do plan to make a one shot book about that} BTW Did anyone get the Hamilton reference, comment if you did. I'm willing to wait for it!}